🤣 Holy shit, Secret Base writing is so good. Them gently remarking on Steve Jeltz getting clowned on his own baseball card made me pause to laugh for a long minute. youtu.be/VfFn4NqQr_U

Also: “Bob Walk? More like Bob Walk.”

And: "I wonder whether [Jim Rooker, who wagered a walk from the Philly stadium to Pittsburgh if Pittsburgh lost] remembered that Pittsburgh and Philidelphia are separated by the Allegheny Mountains."

Their work is so good.

How to score 10 runs in the first inning and lose | Dorktown

On June 8th, 1989, the Pittsburgh Pirates produced one of the greatest first innings in baseball history, jumping out to a 10-0 lead over the Philadelphia Ph...

^YouTube

Hi all,
Got the invite by @kathrynyu
Excited to be here. My name is Glen Henry (he/him).

I'm a software project manager by trade and face & fingers behind Spritewrench Studios. A solo-ish micro-studio based in Kingston, Jamaica.
I (usually) focus on smaller self-contained titles with an emphasis on narrative elements.

Current:
Working on two projects at the moment:
+ "On the Peril of Parrots", a narrative puzzle game where you play as an AI trying to prove it's intelligence.
store.steampowered.com/app/213…
+ "Duppy Detective Tashia", a detective game based on Caribbean Folklore.
store.steampowered.com/app/195…

About Me:
I'm a self taught artist and have spent most of my life trying to find a way to sustainably combine my passion for art with technology.
Naturally, games felt like the best fit. I've gone the indie route as there isn't an established industry in my country, and I try to help out the local game dev scene through efforts with the JGDS (Jamaica Game Developer Society).

On the Peril of Parrots on Steam

A puzzle game where you prove your humanity by solving color-based challenges.

^{store.steampowered.com}

"Featured hashtag editor replaces camel case by lower case"
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

Currently, when adding a featured hashtag to your profile, if you use camelcase (e.g. MastodonCats) it gets lowercased (e.g. mastodoncats), which isn't great for #accessibility / #a11y.

If you're into it, click through to the Github issue to add your 👍 or comment of support. And if you don't have a Github account but still want to support, please boost. 🚀

#Mastodon #MastoMeta

Featured hashtag editor replaces camel case by lower case · Issue #18184 · mastodon/mastodon

Steps to reproduce the problem Log in and start editing your profile Try adding a camel-cased hashtag to your featured hashtags, e.g. #ArtOfHosting See it added as #artofhosting Expected behaviour ...

^GitHub

Had a delightful #BeatSaber session this evening, and landed on a wonderfully difficult and clever map: tofubeats' "CANDYYYLAND (Pa’s Lam System Remix)", mapped by Saut: bsaber.com/songs/294c/

Here's a very skilled person playing on Expert, the hardest difficulty I beat: youtu.be/3XjdriFOgLk (unrelated: they have wildly low-contrast block arrows! 🤯) The segment starting at 2:48 in that video is so smoothly mapped that I didn't even get tangled up in left-handed mode.

#VideoGames

tofubeats – CANDYYYLAND (Pa’s Lam System Remix) V2

Mapper: saut | Description: expert+ -> expert++ expert -> expert+ hard -> expert normal -> hard easy -> normal

^BeastSaber

Time for some #famicom #chipmusic!

#chiptune

In searching for an instance to join, I noticed that many do not mention ableism in their ToC. I care about avoiding ableist language, so I picked one that did mention it.

I do notice quite a bit of ableist language in the larger fediverse, so decided to write a blog post of common objections to avoiding ableist language, and my responses to them.

Here it is: medium.com/@kavanaram/avoid-ab…

#Disability #Ableism #AbleistLanguage @disability

Avoid Ableist Language - Kavana Ramaswamy - Medium

Ableist language is any communication that validates the belief that disabled people/bodies/functioning are less worthy of respect than others. Let’s break this down. In an ethical society, every…

^{Kavana Ramaswamy (Medium)}

Study of Aivazovsky's The ninth wave

#painting #MastoArt #study #sketch

I see quite a lot of #Science posts expressing concern if The Public will follow their authors' #TwitterMigration over on here.

Here's the thing: they don't even have to. Every #Mastodon account has an #RSS feed. For example, here's mine:
mstdn.social/@rysiek.rss

Every hashtag has an RSS feed as well (as seen from a given instance), for example:
mstdn.social/tags/Science.rss

Your audiences can follow you without ever setting up an account on fedi, with any RSS reader.

#Mastotips If you are not concerned about content warnings for yourself and want to have fewer clicks/taps in your timeline all the time, you can set all content warnings to automatically expand 😀

It's near the bottom of the page in Preferences > Appearance

Up until yesterday/today it was feasible for me to respond to most un-described art from new users with a note about image descriptions. It's too busy for me to do that now, but if you want to ask people to consider it, please do it gently, and you can send people the following link that explains why it's important, and how to do it:

mastodon.art/@Curator/10927903…

Remember the frustration of trying to understand an unfamiliar technology; be kind, be courteous, be compassionate.

Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator :masto: (@Curator@mastodon.art)

We have a lot of blind and partially sighted users on the fediverse. Accessibility is important here, and as such, it's good form to include image descriptions (alt text) when we add media to our posts.

^Mastodon.ART

AYY, I finally took a ban on #twitter 😂

I'm unsure what the fuck did I break, but here are all of my tweets, and can you point to me which tweet was the one I broke rules with? (in dora's the explorer voice)

- nitter.esmailelbob.xyz/esmaile…

Just a reminder that all my music is free to download at jefftheworld.com , so please check it out if you're into #chiptune, #chipmusic, and other #micromusic.

#music

!Friendica Support

I am noticing that it never goes down.

did they change anything from cron on linux?

One wood-fired fruit loaf!

Smells fantastic.

#breadPosting #bread #baking

Pizza oven is lit. Should be good to go by lunchtime.

#pizza #fire #oven #cooking

@3goodthings #3goodthings

1. The August weather continues in Vermont, giving us time to stack the last of the wood, put the gardens to bed and hike.
2. I just deleted every game from my iPhone and look forward to the extra time I will have each day.
3. This space seems to be attracting some very nice people relieved and surprised that people here are so gracious and civil.

Oh, hey, since I have some new followers here: my game studio (Future Proof Games) does bi-weekly streams of other indies' games that we think are prolly somewhat in line with our values of empathy and compassion. Right now, @gregoryaveryweir is streaming the cool-looking dating sim "Arcade Spirits" over at twitch.tv/gregoryaveryweir/

I'll be in chat while Gregory plays. We'll geek about game design and talk about our work a bit during the stream.

GregoryAveryWeir - Twitch

Video game developer, writer, tabletop gamer. Worked on "Majesty of Colors," "Exploit," "How to Raise a Dragon," "Looming," and "Ossuary."

^Twitch

“Your server doesn’t matter”
“It’s ok! You can still find people not in your tiny silos”

Absolute bullshit lol

I am being made to choose between making it easy to find fellow scicommers or fellow Philadelphians and it’s making me *so* mad. This app is godawful for “hyphenates” or those who are active in multiple communities.

It’s not IMPOSSIBLE to find each other, of course. Just more challenging than I find practical. Ugh.

While aus.social is paused for maintenance, I've reopened registrations at social.chinwag.org temporarily.

Please don't make me regret this. 😁

Chinwag Social

Consider this a friendly, local pub. Make yourself at home, bring your friends, have a good time! Meet new people, have a laugh, enjoy the ambience, and the Oxford commas.

^{Mastodon hosted on chinwag.org}

Starting again with a new profile, so time for an #introduction -

Hi! I'm Ben Werdmuller. I've been a blogger since 1998. These days I post regularly at werd.io. Writing is my first love, and I'm working on a novel.

I founded two FOSS social platforms (Elgg and Known), worked at a mission-driven investor, worked at Medium, and was Geek in Residence at Edinburgh Festivals. Today I'm CTO at The 19th (19thnews.org), a women-led newsroom that reports on gender, politics and policy.

Ben Werdmuller

Ethical technology in the internet era

^{Ben Werdmuller}

Hi everyone 🥰 I've had this account for a while but never really used it. Now seems like a good time for an #introduction

🙋🏻‍♀️Ivana Isadora, from Croatia. You might remember me from the bird site as ivana_isadora - twitter.com/i/events/158640441…
💻 I write about tech for a living, and I love it! In my day job, I develop software documentation.
🆓 Big believer in principles of FOSS. I support and promote FOSS culture, communities & contributors whenever possible.

Excited to meet new like-minded folks here!

Someone in a prison in #georgia sent me this. It is rat droppings in the cereal.

I’m posting this bc I am a #journalist who covers #prisons so I post a lot about deteriorating conditions behind bars. On the bird app ppl tend to respond with the worst things they can think of to say about how prisoners deserve this. I’m curious how people will respond over here… #TwitterMigration

I've posted several times here but didn't do official #introductons post

I'm an unpublished #writer living in #Seattle #PNW who enjoys posting about #books (fiction, nonfiction, YA, adult, just about anything especially from diverse authors)

I make silly posts about live #sports of all kinds, unusual #history stories, jokes, animation, kdramas, gbbo, Top Chef, all sorts of things. I keep it relatively wholesome & try hard to avoid spoilers